Oracle’s executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison introduced the company’s new cloud database this week, labelling the new platform “as revolutionary as the Internet.”

The CTO also took aim at Amazon Web Services, whose databases “cost more and do less.”

“This technology changes everything,” claims Ellison.

“The Oracle Autonomous Database is based on technology as revolutionary as the Internet. It patches, tunes, and updates itself.”

The database uses machine learning to deliver performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention.

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of the analytical capabilities, security features, and high availability of the Oracle Database without any of the complexities of configuration and administration - even as warehousing workloads and data volumes change.

The database features query performance without the need for tuning, and is so fast Oracle claims it can “cut your Amazon bill in half when you run the same data warehouse workload on Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service as compared to running on Amazon AWS,” the company said in a statement.

The company also promotes the elasticity of the database, saying the platform is independent, online scaling of compute storage with the ability to dynamically grown or shrink resources to enable “true pay-per-use [that] dramatically lowers costs.”

Additionally, Ellison promoted the new database by its three key capabilities: self-managing, self-securing, and self-repairing:

Self-repairing - Provides automated protection from all planned and unplanned downtime with up to 99.995% availability, resulting in less than 2.5 minutes of downtime per month, including planned maintenance.

The company also has other Oracle Autonomous Database services in the pipeline, including, Oracle Autonomous Database for Transaction Processing, Oracle Autonomous NoSQL Database, and Oracle Autonomous Graph Database for network analysis.